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DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS
DOCTORS
DRUGS
HOSPITALS
REFERENCE TOOLS
STATISTICS
Koop's
Medical Encyclopedia http://www.drkoop.com/conditions/encyclopedia
Dr. C. Everett Koop, a former U.S. Surgeon General, has
health terms and images on his Web site.
DOCTORS
American Medical Association
Directory of Doctors http://www.ama-assn.org
The AMA's home page lists doctors across the country.
Information includes specialty, medical school attended and year of graduation.
American Board of Medical
Specialties Directory http://www.abms.org
The ABMS lists the names of board-certified doctors in
various areas of medicine. Search by doctor name or by specialty. Registration required.
Virginia
Health Profession License Lookup http://www.vipnet.org/dhp/cgi-bin/search_publicdb.cgi
Allows you to search doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacies
by name or zip code. You can find out whether the licensee has been
the subject of a regulatory board proceeding. To get any details
about the proceeding, you must call the board directly.
DRUGS
RXList
Drugs http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/rxlist.cgi
Similar to the Physician's Desk Reference, RXList has
detailed information for many drugs, including dosages, side effects, brand
names, etc.
HOSPITALS
Virginia Health Information
Center http://www.vhi.org
Has financial data for Mary Washington Hospital and lots
of other health care links.
REFERENCE TOOLS
The Centers for Disease
Control http://www.cdc.gov
Health topics from A to Z are listed on the CDC's Web
site.
Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov
The government designed this as a meta-site for consumers.
Includes articles and Web sites.
MEDLINEplus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
The National Library of Medicine developed this site
for lay people who need to research health topics. It's a web of facts
about diseases, current research and drug information.
Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com/health/diseases_and_conditions
Yahoo has a very large (and keyword-searchable) directory
of medical links.
STATISTICS
Consumer Products Safety
Commission http://www.cpsc.gov
Need to know how many people were injured by chain saws
or baby strollers last year? The C.P.S.C. collects statistics like
these from hospital emergency rooms. They also keep track of product
recalls.
FASTATS
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/fastats
This database from the National Center for Health Statistics
has statistics on many, many topics, such as accidents, allergies and births.
Many statistics are broken down by state.
National
Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm
Find information here about life expectancy, births,
deaths, sex education, fertility, obesity and smoking.
Rappahannock River Drownings - Excel
Format
Names, locations, etc. of drownings from 1962 to present. NOTE: Dr. Frederic Phillips, the Fredericksburg
area’s medical examiner, says there have been 18 more drownings since 1972
than we have in our list. However, he has not released any information
to The Free Lance-Star about the incidents or the victims.
University
of Michigan Documents Center http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html
You'll find government Web sites here that link to information
about many, many health topics.
Virginia
Center for Health Statistics http://www.vdh.state.va.us/healthstats/index.asp
The state's health department has vital statistics broken
down by county. Most of the information includes births, deaths and
teen pregnancies.
What
Are the Odds of Dying of ...? http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
The National Safety Council knows how likely it is that
you'll die from lightning, a dog bite, fireworks or other catastrophic
event.
Last modified April 16, 2004
